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Rich McCaffery To Be Honored with Arbor Day Planting

Rich McCaffery, enjoying his community-sponsored retirement party in 2007. (Photo provided)

COOPERSTOWN—Village of Cooperstown officials will honor the late Richard M. McCaffery on Monday, May 19 at the village’s annual Arbor Day Celebration. McCaffery, who led a life devoted to community service, passed away on December 2, 2024 at the age of 72.

A graduate of Cornell University, McCaffery received countless awards in recognition of his volunteerism and humanitarian work, receiving the Lions Foundation’s Robert J. Uplinger Distinguished Service Award for Community Service, Lion’s Club International’s Melvin Jones Fellowship, Cooperstown’s Community Citizen of the Year award in 2000 and, in 2012, he was the recipient of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Community Service Award. In 2013, McCaffery was named Conservationist of the Year by the Otsego County Conservation Association, and he received a Gold Lifetime Museum Pass from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016, among other awards.

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